Question:   (Ed)  Yes.   All three versions were shot in colour.  On a wind up Bolex in Teeswater Ontario Canada was shot the 16 mm original version.  In Toronto at Meta Media on an Oxbury Animation stand was shot the 35 mm version.  At the office of Tantacle films, on Ron Frike's 70 mm camera in Los Angeles was shot the 70 mm version.  The sequel "Two Taa Too" was shot at Film Opticals in Toronto.  The original artwork for each version was black typing (with occasional little bits of red typing) on white paper.  The first version (16 mm) was typed on Richard Condie's old line test paper sheets from his National Film Board of Canada (NFB) film "John Law and the Mississippi Bubble".  Some of Richard Condie's pencil lines from the drawing tests are not completely erased and can be seen showing through on the first 16 mm version.  The artwork (shot in 35 mm and 70 mm) was re-typed by hand by Herwig Gayer.
(Brian)  Indeed, "Primiti Too Taa is in color.

Question:   (Ed) 3,409 sheets of paper.
Question:   (Ed) Six weeks.
Question:   (Ed) Six weeks.
Question:   (Ed) Eight days.
Question:   (Ed) Two Years.
Question:   (Ed) Ten Years.
Question:   (Ed) Maybe.
Question:   (Ed) Eighteen Years.
Question:   (Ed) Five Times.
Question:   (Ed) Yes.
Question: (Ed) Here are some: Kurt Schwitters, Norman Mclaren, Al Hanson and......

Al Hansen
Al Hansen (1966)  Hansen's vocabulary and forms are limited
to the words, numbers and lines (straight) on chocolate-and-silver
Hershey Bar rappers, which he transformed into dynamic visual poems.

Question:  (Ed) Yes.  It was screened in Chicago in 1988, Bradford England, Ottawa, The Hague, Los Angeles, Vienna, New York, Vancouver, and a few other places that I don't know about. The Imax distribution contract is up for renewal.  It will be screened again in Chicago September 14 -Oct 5 with "The Old Man and the Sea.
Question :  (Ed) Yes.  There are two feature Imax films in the works.
                1) In the form of a children's film the final completion of:
                    "Once Upon A Typewriter".
                2) In the form of an international film about language.
Question :   (Ed) The "Alphabet Car".

September  Questions

(Brian) Has "Primiti Too Taa" turned a profit over all production expenses?
(Brian) What is the longest run the film has had in a single location?
(Brian) What film is it most commonly shown with?

Question: (Brian) Has the soundtrack of the 15/70 version of the film been produced in digital formats (Imax, DTS, etc.)?
Answer:  No.

(Brian) Have  you encountered an individual named Bill (William) Mitchell in your filmmaking career.
(Brian) How many blank frames (frames without type) are in "Primiti Too Taa?

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